Logah Technology Corp.

National Taiwan University

Google Inc.

Pegatron Corporation

Logan Technology Corp.

Yu-Cheng Pan

Cheng-Chia Hsu

Chen-Lin Chen

Teng-Kang Chang

Andrew Man Chung Wo

Ken-Chao Chen

Cheng-Wei Yang

Yun-Ching Wu

Andrew M Wo

Teng-Ho Wu

Ho-Wen Chen

Sung Kyun Bai

Peter A Privitera

Giancarlo Giustina

Brian Huynh

Ssu-Chieh Yu

Jungmin Han

Chang-Wei Wu

Aditya Narayanan

Wei-Chun Yeh

Chia-Yuan Chen

Jong-Chi Tseng

Tsung-Yueh Yu

Ming-Tse Kao

Bhaveya Dhall

Various arrangements of smart home devices are presented herein. A chassis assembly of a smart home device may define one or more compartments. The chassis assembly may include a plurality of cover fasteners. A rotatable cover assembly may be present and configured to be removably attached with the plurality of cover fasteners to the chassis assembly in any rotational orientation and to at least partially cover a front of the chassis assembly. While the rotatable cover is removably attached with the plurality of cover fasteners, the rotatable cover assembly is configured to block access to the one or more compartments defined by the chassis assembly.

Wireless actuator unit with a thermostat stand

The present invention relates to an input device. The input device includes a circuit board, a wheel, a supporting frame, a push button switch and a tilt switch. The wheel has a rotary shaft. The supporting frame includes a body, an extension arm, a first and a second supporting portion. The wheel is pivotally connected to the body by the rotary shaft. The extension arm is disposed at the side edge of the body. The first and second supporting portion are connected to the body, where the second supporting portion is disposed between the rotary shaft and the first supporting portion. The push button switch is corresponding to the body. When the wheel is pressed, the body is driven to trigger the push button switch. The tilt switch is corresponding to the extension arm. When the wheel tilts, the extension arm is driven to trigger the tilt switch.

Input device

A fluid sample collection device for a disk-based fluid separation system is disclosed. The disk-based separation system includes a compact microfluidic disk with at least one flow channel pattern formed on a side surface of the disk. At least one orifice is formed on an outflow boundary of the disk and is designed in fluid communication with the flow channel pattern through a communication channel. The fluid sample collection device includes at least one collection tube having an open end serving as a fluid receiving end and corresponding to the orifice of the disk with a distance. When the disk is rotated, at least a portion of fluid sample in a sample processing reservoir formed on the disk is delivered by centripetal force through the communication channel and the orifice, and finally the expelling fluid sample is collected in the collection tube.

Disk-based fluid sample collection device

Disclosed is a method for separating immunomagnetic bead labeled particulates. A carrier board is formed with at least one flow channel structure, which includes an inner reservoir, an outer reservoir, and at least one micro flow channel in communication with the inner reservoir and the outer reservoir. The method includes labeling target particulates with immunomagnetic bead, introducing a sample fluid into the inner reservoir, and applying a magnetic force and a driving force, wherein the driving force drives the particulates not labeled with immunomagnetic bead to flow through the micro flow channel to the outer reservoir, while the magnetic force attracts the particulates labeled with the immunomagnetic bead to retain in the inner reservoir. The driving force may be centrifugal force, pressure, or surface tension.

Method for separating immunomagnetic bead labeled particulates

An LCD backlight driving device with an isolating transformer comprises a DC power supply, a square wave generator, a square wave controller, said isolating transformer and a driver transformer; wherein said isolating transformer has a primary side connected to said square wave generator and a secondary side connected to said driver transformer, since said isolating transformer is placed between said square wave generator and said driver transformer, it helps to effectively shorten a safety distance required for setting up said driver transformer; the present invention uses said isolating transformer to shorten the safety distance required than that of using said driver transformer directly and to decrease an area in implementing a circuit board and to cut cost of said device.

LCD backlight driving device with an isolating transformer

Disclosed is a disk based system for separating at least two types of particulates contained in a sample fluid. The system includes a disk-like carrier board and a magnetic attraction unit. The disk-like carrier board forms at least one flow channel structure, which includes an inner reservoir, at least one separation chamber, and at least one outer reservoir arranged in sequence from a geometric center of the disk-like carrier board to an outer circumferential rim of the disk-like carrier board. A method of separation carried out with the system includes introducing the sample fluid into the inner reservoir and then rotating the disk-like carrier board to induce a centrifugal force. The sample fluid contains particulates that are labeled with immunomagnetic beads and the labeled particulates are attracted by the magnetic force generated by the magnetic attraction unit to retain in the inner reservoir or the separation chamber. Particulates not labeled with the immunomagnetic beads and contained in the sample fluid move with the sample fluid to the outer reservoir.

Compact disk based system for separating immunomagnetic bead labeled particulates and method thereof

A lamp driving device with an open voltage control comprises a DC power source, a square wave switch, a square wave controller, an LC resonant circuit, a driver transformer and a current detector; wherein the square wave switch outputs a square wave signal to the LC resonant circuit, the LC resonant circuit converts the square wave signal into a sinusoidal wave signal and outputs the sinusoidal wave signal to the driver transformer, and finally the driver transformer drives the lamp and the current detector is used to detect the operation of the lamp, and, if the lamp is found open-circuit, a PWM control pin will control the square wave controller to stop the operation of the lamp driving device, thereby enhancing safety in using the lamp.

Lamp driving device with open voltage control

Disclosed is a disk based platform for separating and detecting cells that are labeled with immunomagnetic beads. A disk-like carrier board forms therein at least one flow channel structure, which includes an inner reservoir for receiving a sample fluid, an outer reservoir, and a plurality of micro flow channels arranged between and in fluid communication with the inner and outer reservoirs. When the disk-like carrier board spins, cells labeled with immunomagnetic beads are attracted by a magnetic attraction unit that is arranged above the disk-like carrier board and adjacent to the inner reservoir to thereby remain in the inner reservoir, and cells that are not so labeled are acted upon by a centrifugal force induced by the spinning of the disk-like carrier board to flow with the sample fluid from the inner reservoir through the micro flow channels into the outer reservoir.

Compact disk based platform for separating and detecting immunomagnetic bead labeled cells

A lamp driving structure for backlight module includes a backlight module implemented for disposing a first circuit board and a second circuit board thereon, the first circuit board couples with the second circuit board through a transmission line; the structure further includes at least a square wave controller, two square wave switches, a mutually coupled transformer, a plurality of driving transformers and a plurality of connectors disposed selectively on the first circuit board and the second circuit board, thereby reducing the number of driving transformers and connectors and the area of circuit boards to further reduce the manufacturing cost of the lamp driving device.

Lamp driving structure for backlight module

Disclosed is an improved lamp circuit of a liquid crystal device (LCD) backlight source, comprising a printed circuit board (PCB) for lamp initialization having a control circuit and a first connector thereon; a first lamp connection board disposed between the first lamp connection board and a second lamp connection board and being lamps of the LCD backlight source; a second lamp connection board having a second connector and transformers thereon, the transformers each corresponding to one of the lamps; and a low voltage wire set connected between the first connector on the PCB for lamp initialization and the second connector on the second lamp connection board, wherein a signal issued from the first connector on the PCB for lamp initialization is transmitted through the low voltage wire set to the second connector on the first PCB for lamp initialization and then to a corresponding one of the transformers so that the lamps may be driven to operate. With use of the present invention, number of the used connectors may be reduced and arrangement issue of the high voltage wires may be obviated, making volume of the PCB for lamp initialization allowed to be reduced and cost of the lamp circuit lowered.

Lamp circuit of liquid crystal device backlight source

A two-end driven lamp controlling device includes a direct-current (DC) power supply, square wave switches, a square wave controller, a plurality of lamps, a plurality of starting transformers and a plurality of lamps commonly connective transformers, wherein the plurality of starting transformers or the plurality of lamps commonly connective transformers are disposed besides the plurality of lamps and the square wave switches are connected to the sides of the plurality of starting transformers or the plurality of lamps commonly connective transformers and to the DC power supply and can receive signals from the square wave controller. The present invention utilizes a circuitry design of a plurality of lamps, a plurality of starting transformers and a plurality of lamps commonly connective transformers so as to make the brightness of the plurality of lamps effectively homogenized and balanced and, moreover, to solve the problem of high cost for conventional devices, which use too many components for maintaining the brightness of the lamps.

Two-end driven lamp controlling device

In a fixation structure for fixing a lamp on a printed circuit board (PCB), a connection end of the lamp is received within a connection hole of the PCB and a sleeve having approximately cone shape is disposed between the lamp and the PCB. When the connection end of the lamp is continuously inserted into the connection hole of the PCB, a contact area between the connection end and the connection hole is increased, thereby effectively enhancing a contact-and-on performance of the lamp and the PCB. Sleeves may be located on lamps leads or alternatively placed in the connection hole of the PCB.

Fixation structure for fixing a lamp on a printed circuit board

A double frequency signal generator to which a synchronization signal having a duty cycle of 1% to 999% is inputted. The synchronization signal is used for triggering of a switching component at positive and negative edges to generate a triangular-wave signal. An average of voltages of the triangular-wave signal is acquired and compared with the triangular-wave signal at a comparator to generate a square-wave having a duty cycle of 50%. Then, the square-wave signal is used for triggering at positive and negative edges to generate a double frequency signal. As such, the high cost issue and the limitation of a square-wave input signal occurred in the prior art may be efficiently overcome.

Double frequency signal generator

The invention discloses a feedback sampling control circuit for a lamp driving system having a feedback loop, in that the feedback sampling control circuit includes a switch and an effective current sampling controller. The switch is electrically coupled in the feedback path of the lamp driving system. The effective current sampling controller controls switching of the switch based on a voltage or current signal from a high voltage terminal of the lamp, such that an effective current actually sampled by a feedback controller in the lamp driving system is controlled so that a current component of a parasitic capacitance contained in the effective current is minimized. Thereby, the disadvantage caused by the leakage current through the parasitic capacitance can be eliminated and it is thus possible to precisely control the lamp current and to obtain a stable brightness quality.

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Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Cheng Pan